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When the script deftly maneuvers Angela, Mike, Tony and Connie into the most expensively hideous suite in a Miami Beach hotel, Demme finds a satisfying comic payoff for the first time in his career. And in Pfeiffer -- a California blond in black wig and cramped Queens patois -- he has secured the emotional anchor to his vertiginous sight gags...
...share of stock, ever came to me." But the jury apparently took the word of four former Wedtech executives who testified against Biaggi. In a separate case, Biaggi was sentenced last year to 30 months in prison for obstructing justice and accepting a free trip to Florida as a payoff for his assistance to a Brooklyn shipyard...
...hotel was never built, and Congress and the Korean government are investigating another possibility: that the funds amounted to a payoff to Park, who had important political connections in Seoul. Northrop allegedly paid Park, who died of liver cancer in 1985, to arrange for the Korean government to buy the company's proposed F-20 fighter plane. Had Park succeeded, the Wall Street Journal reported last week, he stood to receive $55 million from Northrop. Congress is looking into whether there was a violation of the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which bars payoffs to foreign officials...
Leaders of the Group of Seven industrial nations will issue a predictable declaration containing vague pledges of cooperation and general prescriptions for economic ills. TIME offers an alternative version with concrete measures designed to ensure world prosperity. -- Northrop faces a probe of an alleged payoff in Korea to help sell the F- 20. -- The biggest S and L liquidation ever...
...whom Wallach had introduced to Meese. At times Chinn bought more stock in Meese's name than Meese's investment could pay for, and the deals produced a profit of $40,000 for the Attorney General. The arrangement, according to a Justice official, could be seen as an indirect payoff to Meese...